The goal of the Rhode Island Data Discovery Center (RIDDC) is to become the national and international go-to-source for data on the Narragansett Bay ecosystem. For C-AIM investigators pursuing the research goals of the Integrated Bay Observatory, Predicting Ecosystem Response and Visualization & Imaging, RIDDC will become the site where they will store their data, share their data internally with other C-AIM investigators and share their data externally with investigators around the world. In addition to new data collected by C-AIM investigators, RIDDC will also collect and share historical data on the Narragansett Bay ecosystem. In addition to sharing data with scientists, RIDDC will also become the go-to-source where decision makers, land-use managers, relevant industries, citizen scientists and students can find data on the Narragansett Bay ecosystem.

This material is based upon work conducted by the Rhode Island Consortium for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation & Modeling (RI C-AIM), and supported in full by the National Science Foundation EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement 1655221. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.